China has a long history of favouring eunuchs for their political reliability - by rendering them incapable of raising a family you removed a rival loyalty that might exceed their loyalty to the State.
In that one "History of China" Podcast i listened to way back when, the eunuchs eventually always get too big for the britches and the empire collapses.
China has a long history of favouring eunuchs for their political reliability - by rendering them incapable of raising a family you removed a rival loyalty that might exceed their loyalty to the State.
In that one "History of China" Podcast i listened to way back when, the eunuchs eventually always get too big for the britches and the empire collapses.